model_bedload: Model the seismic spectrum due to bedload transport in rivers

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Model the seismic spectrum due to bedload transport in rivers

Description

The function calculates a seismic spectrum as predicted by the model of Tsai et al. (2012) for river bedload transport. The code was written to R by Sophie Lagarde and integrated to the R package 'eseis' by Michael Dietze.

Usage

model_bedload(
  gsd,
  d_s,
  s_s,
  r_s,
  q_s,
  h_w,
  w_w,
  a_w,
  f = c(1, 100),
  r_0,
  f_0,
  q_0,
  e_0,
  v_0,
  p_0,
  n_0,
  n_c,
  res = 100,
  adjust = TRUE,
  eseis = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

gsd	data frame grain-size distribution function. Must be provided as data frame with two variables: grain-size class (in m, first column) and wgt/vol percentage per class (second column). See examples for details.
d_s	Numeric value, mean sediment grain diameter (m). Alternative to gsd.
s_s	Numeric value, standard deviation of sediment grain diameter (m). Alternative to gsd.
r_s	Numeric value, specific sediment density (kg / m^3)
q_s	Numeric value, unit sediment flux (m^2 / s)
h_w	Numeric value, fluid flow depth (m)
w_w	Numeric value, fluid flow width (m)
a_w	Numeric value, fluid flow inclination angle (radians)
f	Numeric vector, frequency range to be modelled. If of length two the argument is interpreted as representing the lower and upper limit and the final length of the frequency vector is set by the argument res. If f contains more than two values it is interpreted as the actual frequency vector and the value of res is ignored.
r_0	Numeric value, distance of seismic station to source
f_0	Numeric value, reference frequency (Hz)
q_0	Numeric value, ground quality factor at f_0. "Reasonable value may be 20" (Tsai et al. 2012).
e_0	Numeric value, exponent characterizing quality factor increase with frequency (dimensionless). "Reasonable value may be 0" (Tsai et al. 2012).
v_0	Numeric value, phase speed of the Rayleigh wave at f_0 (m/s). Assuming a shear wave velocity of about 2200 m/s, Tsai et al. (2012) yield a value of 1295 m/s for this parameter.
p_0	Numeric value, exponent of the power law variation of Rayleigh wave velocities with frequency. Attention, previous package versions used the argument name x_0, which is still silently supported for compatibility reasons, only giving a warning.
n_0	Numeric vector of length two, Greens function displacement amplitude coefficients. Cf. N_ij in eq. 36 in Gimbert et al. (2014)
n_c	Numeric value, option to include single particle hops coherent in time, causing spectrum modulation due to secondary effects. Omitted is no value is specified, here. Usual values may be between 2 and 4.
res	Numeric value, output resolution, i.e. length of the spectrum vector. Default is 1000.
adjust	Logical value, option to adjust PSD for wide grain-size distributions, according to implementation by Tsai et al. (2012).
eseis	Character value, option to return an eseis object instead of a data frame. Default is FALSE.
...	Further arguments passed to the function.

Details

The model uses a set of predefined constants. These can also be changed by the user, using the ... argument:

• g = 9.81, gravitational acceleration (m/s^2)

• r_w = 1000, fluid specific density (kg/m^3)

• k_s = 3 * d_50, roughness length (m)

• log_lim = c(0.0001, 100), limits of grain-size distribution function template (m)

• log_length = 10000, length of grain-size distribution function template

• nu = 10^(-6), specific density of the fluid (kg/m^3)

• power_d = 3, grain-size power exponent

• gamma = 0.9, gamma parameter, after Parker (1990)

• s_c = 0.8, drag coefficient parameter

• s_p = 3.5, drag coefficient parameter

• c_1 = 2 / 3, inter-impact time scaling, after Sklar & Dietrich (2004)

When no user defined grain-size distribution function is provided,the function calculates the raised cosine distribution function as defined in Tsai et al. (2012) using the default range and resolution as specified by log_lim and log_length (see additional arguments list above). These default values are appropriate for mean sediment sizes between 0.001 and 10 m and log standard deivations between 0.05 and 1. When more extreme distributions are to be used, it is necessary to either adjust the arguments log_lim and log_length or use a user defined distribution function.

The adjustment option (implemented with package version 0.6.0) is only relevant for wide grain-size distributions, i.e., s_s > 0.2. In such cases, the unadjusted version tends to underestimate seismic power.

Value

eseis object containing the modelled spectrum.

Author(s)

Sophie Lagarde, Michael Dietze

References

Tsai, V. C., B. Minchew, M. P. Lamb, and J.-P. Ampuero (2012), A physical model for seismic noise generation from sediment transport in rivers, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L02404, doi:10.1029/2011GL050255.

Examples

## calculate spectrum (i.e., fig. 1b in Tsai et al., 2012)
p_bedload <- model_bedload(d_s = 0.7,
                           s_s = 0.1,
                           r_s = 2650,
                           q_s = 0.001,
                           h_w = 4,
                           w_w = 50,
                           a_w = 0.005,
                           f = c(0.1, 20),
                           r_0 = 600,
                           f_0 = 1,
                           q_0 = 20,
                           e_0 = 0,
                           v_0 = 1295,
                           x_0 = 0.374,
                           n_0 = 1,
                           res = 100,
                           eseis = TRUE)

## plot spectrum
plot_spectrum(data = p_bedload, 
              ylim = c(-170, -110))
              
## define empiric grain-size distribution
gsd_empiric <- data.frame(d = c(0.70, 0.82, 0.94, 1.06, 1.18, 1.30),
                          p = c(0.02, 0.25, 0.45, 0.23, 0.04, 0.00))
                  
## calculate spectrum
p_bedload <- model_bedload(gsd = gsd_empiric,
                           r_s = 2650,
                           q_s = 0.001,
                           h_w = 4,
                           w_w = 50,
                           a_w = 0.005,
                           f = c(0.1, 20),
                           r_0 = 600,
                           f_0 = 1,
                           q_0 = 20,
                           e_0 = 0,
                           v_0 = 1295,
                           x_0 = 0.374,
                           n_0 = 1,
                           res = 100,
                           eseis = TRUE)
                  
## plot spectrum
plot_spectrum(data = p_bedload, 
              ylim = c(-170, -110))
              
## define mean and sigma for parametric distribution function
d_50 <- 1
sigma <- 0.1

## define raised cosine distribution function following Tsai et al. (2012)
d_1 <- 10^seq(log10(d_50 - 5 * sigma), 
              log10(d_50 + 5 * sigma), 
              length.out = 20)

sigma_star <- sigma / sqrt(1 / 3 - 2 / pi^2)

p_1 <- (1 / (2 * sigma_star) * 
          (1 + cos(pi * (log(d_1) - log(d_50)) / sigma_star))) / d_1
p_1[log(d_1) - log(d_50) > sigma_star] <- 0
p_1[log(d_1) - log(d_50) < -sigma_star] <- 0
p_1 <- p_1 / sum(p_1)

gsd_raised_cos <- data.frame(d = d_1,
                             p = p_1)
             

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